Volunteers with Vulcan Towing in Anchorage helped Museum of Alaska director James Grogan extract almost all of the remaining bones from a fin whale on Cook Inlet mudflats on Tuesday. All that remained ...

Shark fin soup is a popular (and pricey ... protections have previously been achieved for a number of shark and ray species, including basking and whale sharks in 2003; great white sharks in 2005; ...

On one occasion, she grabbed the skin under a whale shark’s first dorsal fin as it cruised by. She held on, going ever deeper underwater until, at some point, it occurred to her she’d better ...

Whale sharks, the largest fish in the ocean, have eluded scientists regarding their mating habits. Recent clues from St ...

JAMESTOWN, St. Helena (AP) — Whale sharks shouldn’t be hard for scientists to find. They are enormous — they are the biggest fish in the sea and perhaps the biggest fish to have ever lived.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - The fin whale that washed ashore near Anchorage’s coastal trail in November is making progress on ...

James Grogan woke up Monday discouraged: It seemed his dream of recovering a complete skeleton from the 48-foot fin whale that washed up on the Anchorage mudflats in November might be slipping ...